Buried in special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-plus page report is the question of whether then-president-elect Donald Trump attended a 2016 championship chess tournament — an event that came under scrutiny as Mueller probed possible collusion between Trump’s orbit and the Russian government. Although Trump said he did not attend the event, he told Mueller in written answers that he became “aware of documents indicating” that then-president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov — a sanctioned Russian power player — invited the Trump Organization in March 2016 to host the tournament at Trump Tower. “I do not remember having been asked to attend the World Chess Championship gala, and I did not attend the event,” Trump told Mueller. “During the course of preparing to respond to these questions, I have become aware of documents indicating that in March of 2016, the president of the World Chess Federation invited the Trump Organization to host, at Trump Tower, the 2016 World Chess Championship Match to be held in New York in November 2016.” “I have also become aware that in November 2016, there were press inquiries to my staff regarding whether I had plans to attend the tournament, which was not… Read full this story

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